They’re slicks, just like race cars use! That must mean they’re super grippy, right?
Yes, until it rains.
Yes. There’s more rubber touching the road, therefore more grip.
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Drive a little more and you’ll have METAL tires which are the BEST!
Just put them in tire warmers every morning for 20 minutes. That’ll do.
I’m not proud to admit it, but that is pretty close to how my tires were last week. I finally swapped them out, but even with my employee discount i was looking at almost $700 for a set of four. Tires are expensive, and you often dont realize how bad they have gotten until it is too late. Even finding used tires is difficult these days.
That being said, going from exposed wires to fresh tires is amazing. I got in my car and immediately noticed i was sitting 3 inches higher, and it’s wonderful driving a car that actually grips the road instead of just sitting on top of them.
How did you passed the inspection with these tires?! or is it damaged within one year?
In the US most states don’t care in California (where I live) as long as it has a cat and passes emissions your good
This is just driving on hard mode.
/s no don’t do this, this is so dangerous.
Racing slicks at home:
Combine with brakes worn down to the calipers on rotors directly and you’re facing the final boss on hard mode for the prize of life
Isn’t this pretty much optimal on dry surfaces? The patterns in the tires are for draining away water, and nothing else. I mean, look at F1 tires for dry roads.
But the tiniest splash of water will send you on a rotational journy into what’s straight ahead.
On a dry surface these have more grip but the belts are exposed and any debris wouldn’t bit be absorbed by the tread so I’m guessing not optimal for dry surface but very dangerous.
How the fuck do the tires even pick up the road at that point 😂
Driving on the free way?? Christ on a bike
Cars on race tracks use bald tyres for more contact with the road, which gives better grip. The tread is there to guide water out so the car doesn’t slide in the wet.
Unfortunately it looks like the image is of a car with bald tyres in the wet (I’m assuming that’s why it’s shiny).
Oooo learn somethin new every day, thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤️
Also worth noting though that the main reason race cars are able to get more grip with slick tires is because the tires are made to have a very low melting (?) point. So they heat up very quickly and also don’t last very long as a result. But that heating up allows them to literally stick to the ground. Normal car tires ain’t doing that for sure.
Man I just went down a rabbit hole and no one can agree on car tyres. It seems you’re right about special racing tyres that melt and attach to the road (after warm up laps), but no one can agree on whether bald car tyres in the dry have more grip than treaded ones (in ideal conditions). For sure, wet, snow, sand, gravel, etc. You want the tread, which is pretty much every public road since they are not swept perfectly clean and smooth. But I could not find an answer to whether bald tyres grip the road better. People say they don’t, which is why racing cars use slicks, but that’s not proof, even if bald tyres grip better they would still use soft tyres for even better grip.
I found reddit threads with engineers saying one thing and other engineers saying they are wrong. Racing forums with non-engineers saying the soft slicks are the reason for grip and bald regular car tyres have less grip. No one can back up their claims.
It’s obvious that it’s a bad idea to drive on bald tyres because the road is always an imperfect surface, but I can’t even find a hypothetical answer to the question with any confidence.
I ended up here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_model
In current vehicle simulator models, the tire model is the weakest and most difficult part to simulate
I guess we don’t really know the answer, that would explain why it’s so hard to find 😆
We’re also looking for a very generic answer to a (probably) more nuanced problem
The knobs on tires are so that water has a way to escape when a car drives over it. A completely flat Tyre has the most traction but can’t handle rain. Every day Tires have a mix to handle all conditions. I may be wrong but I remember hearing this in a youtube video
It’s time for a tire regroove! Tire shops will hate you.
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I’m assuming this mean change the tire??
[A photograph of a tire on a motor vehicle. The tire is completely smooth looking and shiny.]
Memezar, @meme_zar
The fact that you’re still alive is astounding
TBH, that’s not a bad wear pattern, aside from being as bald a cue ball. The alignment, balance, and inflation are all pretty good, the tire is just completely shot. Most of the time you’ll see pretty bad wear patterns on tires that are allowed to go that far, because people that can’t afford tires usually can’t afford alignments either.
They must be somewhere that doesn’t salt and maintains its roads.
Does such a mystical place exist?
Probably somewhere that doesn’t snow or freeze over, and thus has reasonable maintenance costs. It’s mainly ice that breaks up the roads, after all. Normal wear and tear will do it too, of course, but water freezing and expanding in the cracks makes the problem exponentially worse every time.
Can you fuck off please?
